Friends, Members, and SCTA, ECTA, &USFRA officials:
...Kvach is absolutely right about all the "unfairness" of new tech vs.
old tech...
Exactly why I, (a pretty serious dragracer from the "old daze") don't
even bother to go to the drags anymore. There is NOTHING there anymore in
common with the way we raced. It's ruin't.
Who in their right mind wants to sit all day watching
computer/electronically controlled cars run against a breakout index??? As
exciting as watchin' paint dry. -or for that matter, sit in a hot car in
the lanes the whole day thru waiting to make a couple of passes where some
computer nerd in the other lane "out chipped" ya? Usta be it was Man &
machine against Man & machine. Now it's all about electronics. Bah Hum
bug. Gawd I'd rather go to the lake... (-or "THE LAKES"!)
For what it's worth, heres my two cents worth;
If the SCTA, USFRA, and ECTA don't pay attention to, and STOP
electronic "rule stretching" by the "New Tech" boys NOW, LSR as we know it
will cease to exist because only the filthy rich will be able to race.
LSR is what it is because there is "room" for those many who enjoy
racing with what many in other forms of "Motorsport" would laugh at, and
call "Obsolete" -if not downright antique! How many other types of racin'
have 40yr. old COMPETITIVE Racecars ?
I won't even watch NASCAR or NHRA because of what they have become.
I'm not that old, but I remember when "Stock Car" MEANT STOCK, CAR.
period. Richard Petty used to build one from a car taken off a dealers
showroonm floor...Remember? I remember; I still have my 1964 NASCAR
Mechanic's membership pin to prove it...
NASCAR today is a corporate farce; a charade. Every time a Good race
team actually finds an advantage (which is after all THE objective in
racing....)NASCAR, due to some "corporate" coddling, interveines.... "It's
Entertainment" is what they say; and that's very TRUE. They have succeeded
in taking the SPORT out of the equation. It no longer is a sport. When they
threw away SPORT, they also threw away fairness.
The"OUTLAWS" are rapidly following suit as well, and are well on the
way to becoming a place where RACERS cannot afford to race.
Any time you want to screw up a sport, just add MONEY -from any source;
Purses, "sponsors", "corporate" or out of pocket. That's what makes LSR so
special boys; there ain't no money; so (hopefully) there ain't no
corruption.
"GREED" ain't good. Not in sport. Not anywhere. As far as I'm
concerned ....Friends, Good times, and good clean Racin' fun IS.
....Ok, I'll jump down off my soap box now.
Really DO "have a nice day"!
-Doug Anderson Bainbridge, NY 1:55pm edt 12/1/99
>From: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>
>Reply-To: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>
>To: "'Carl Dreher'" <focusrsh@arn.net>
>CC: "land-speed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: Electronics vs. old way
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:44:40 -0800
>
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>From: Carl Dreher[SMTP:focusrsh@arn.net]
>Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:48 PM
>Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Electronics vs. old way
>
> I've been wandering if the day isn't coming when the supercharged
>classes are going to be dominated by the electronics managed tubocharged
>motors and us guys who just don't want to go their are racing amongst
>ourselves. I watch cars like Krugels CBG/Alt put the record where AA
>cars dream of going. It would appear that if you have the money and the
>inkling to use electronics to manage a tubo'd motor it is possible to pull
>hundreds more HP than you can with mechanical means. I guess I wander if
>one day the records will be split between electronics managed motors and
>non. Kind of give us our own XO classes, maybe NE class (no electronics)
>or will we just kind of disappear from the scene?? I admit I'm stuck in
>the 60s but I like old cars and the way they were made to run back then and
>besides I will also feel great if I can get my Hilborn to work properly.
>Anybody else feel the same way? I know that either way you do it, It is a
>great challenge with sat!
>isfying results and electronics is here and now and the future, I just
>feel its two different ball games, maybe its okay if we go the way of
>Vintage racing someday. I've been crewing on Bob Ragsdales 53 stude
>CBG/alt for the last few years which he has really worked to get the record
>in the class. In l996 we qualified on an open record just in front of
>David Parks tubocarged early Camaro, we broke and he set the record at
>225, fought on for a couple of years and along comes Krugals awesome car
>which puts the record where no Studebaker is likely to ever go. So its to
>D class last year and along comes John Rain who sets the record at
>something like 247, about dreamable max for Bobs car with its now near
>state of the art dialed in injected, intercooled 671 supercharged chev
>with electronic surveillance. So off to another class hopping some super
>sleek tubo'd car doesn't get to the line before he has a chance. I hate
>to see cars like this disappear like the flathea!
>ds and GMC six cars almost did. Keep an eye on the situation in
>of us can get suggestion forms at the timing stand and take action to keep
>this style of doing things alive. Regards Kvach in N.Idaho
>
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